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Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade

From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Thomas Baker <thomas dot baker at bi dot fhg dot de>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:13:06 -0400
Subject: Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
References: <20021022114820.GA2348@LEPIDUS> <20021022212639.A31592@ms><20021023091534.GA2040@LEPIDUS> <20021023092059.GK1920@NBOF>

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:20:59AM +0200, Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:15:34AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > ..even though "echo $HOME" in a Bash window confirms that 
> > $HOME is "/cygdrive/e".
> 
> AFAIK cygwin takes the home directory from /etc/passwd.

Actually, in this case it is procmail the is using your /etc/passwd
entry to set HOME.  From the procmail man page, we have the following:

    FILES
           /etc/passwd            to  set  the  recipient's  LOGNAME,
                                  HOME and SHELL variable defaults

Jason

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References:
- Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
  - From: Thomas Baker
- Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
  - From: Greg Matheson
- Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
  - From: Thomas Baker
- Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
  - From: Olaf Foellinger

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